Autori: Falzone, Alessandra, Pennisi, Antonino
Titolo: Trumpism and Long-Termism. AI and Biopolitics of Extinction
Periodico: Reti, saperi, linguaggi
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 13 - Pagina finale: 35

The year 2025 may be remembered as the onset of a new political philosophy in power: biopolitical longtermism. Longtermism is a recent techno-political movement that brings together renowned philosophers, mathematicians and artificial intelligence experts, funded by a wealthy and ideologically motivated transnational entrepreneurship. Biopolitics, in contrast, is a highly contentious political philosophy that has experienced significant opposition and divergent interpretations. According to its founder, Michel Foucault, biopolitics is the point of intersection and clash in the human world between the spheres of power and corporeality. A radically opposing view to Foucault’s biopolitics emerged in the Anglo-Saxon context in the new millennium. This model is bio-evolutionary and ethological, based on the idea of deeply understanding how to reconcile conflicts, differences, and disparities, as well as processes of cooperation, solidarity, and social redistribution, aided by powerful natural processes such as reproduction and immigration. From a philosophical standpoint, longtermism can be interpreted as the technological translation of biopolitics. What cannot afford to normatively regulate the biological world will be undertaken by Artificial Intelligence. Our assertion is that this project could soon become a reality. Its realization seems to hinge on the deterministic-decisionism of Donald Trump. Within this framework would fall all the astonishing violations – linguistic and factual – of the political-diplomatic conventions shared by the global community since the post-war era, which we have witnessed in the early months of 2025. The article concludes with an analysis of the errors of longtermism in relation to its possible evolutionary foundations, and in particular to the technical weakness of the notion of «extinction» which should constitute its theoretical fulcrum.




SICI: 2279-7777(2025)1<13:TALAAB>2.0.ZU;2-3
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